• Thaara was introduced to the Maldives by Gulf Arabs who came here in the mid 17TH century. (maldivestraveller.mv)
  • However, key political schisms have undermined the MB's potential to gain greater support among Gulf Arabs. (mepc.org)
  • Khaled Barakat of Vancouver, Canada, one of the organizers of the tour and a Palestinian activist with Al-Awda - North America, expressed the importance that a part of the struggles of the Palestinian Arabs is also their love for music, and that they are a people of rich traditions and culture, and quoted, 'we are not only fighters, we are humans, too. (mediamonitors.net)
  • Israeli Arab elements, such as Knesset Member Ahmad Tibi and the municipality of Nazareth, Dabbur's hometown, likewise urged the Jordanian football club not to boycott the match, since this would be unfair not only to footballer Mu'nas Dabbur but to all Palestinian Arabs who are citizens of Israel. (memri.org)
  • The civilization resulted from numerous exchanges in the cultural and scientific fields, based on the tolerance shown by the Normans towards the Latin- and Greek-speaking Christian populations and the former Arab Muslim settlers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Muslim Arabs and Berbers held onto Sicily and other regions of southern Italy until they were eventually defeated and expelled by the Christian Normans in 1072 to their Iberian and North African territories. (wikipedia.org)
  • The ban on normalization started on the political level, and the Arab and Muslim governments, along with their allies in the world, openly endorsed it. (memri.org)
  • Recently, a new aspect of this humanitarian crisis has come to light: a phenomenon called "protection marriage" ( sutra in Arabic), which involves Arab Muslim men marrying female Syrian refugees, often girls aged 12-16, under the pretext of saving them from the harsh living conditions in the refugee camps, protecting their honor, and assisting the Syrian revolution. (memri.org)
  • Media reports indicate that these cases exist in Jordan, Turkey, Libya and other countries, and that Muslim men from across the Arab world travel to the countries neighboring Syria in search of a young refugee bride. (memri.org)
  • Under the tree of Morocco which according to the late King Hassan II has roots deep in Africa, the trunk in the Arab-Muslim world, and the foliage in Europe, [ii] all its children have their place in its umbrage. (timesofisrael.com)
  • The preeminence accorded to the Muslim religion in the national reference is consistent with [va de pair] the attachment of the Moroccan people to the values of openness, of moderation, of tolerance and of dialog for mutual understanding between all the cultures and the civilizations of the world. (timesofisrael.com)
  • This legal document attests to a successful marriage of traditions, habits, and customs of different cultures: Amazigh, Arab-Muslim, Hassani, Jewish, Andalusian, Mediterranean, and African, giving Morocco a rich and diverse cultural heritage whereby each region has its own particularities contributing to enriching the Moroccan cultural legacy. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Since the Middle Ages, Jewish musical and poetic [vii] practices in the Muslim West have evolved in line with Muslim practices and traditions of music [viii] and poetry, which developed in the Hispanic-Muslim and Arab-Berber cultural areas. (timesofisrael.com)
  • In the aftermath of the Arab world's 2011 uprisings, Saudi Arabia and the UAE actively pressured other GCC members to crack down on the movement in an effort to establish a "Muslim Brotherhood-free security environment" in the Arabian Peninsula. (mepc.org)
  • Indeed, Arab nationalism has always been just that: Arab, rather than Muslim. (firstthings.com)
  • That is, powerful Arab regimes and Arab tycoons maintain ties and trade relations with Israel without hindrance - yet individuals like athletes, artists, writers, poets and members of various professional unions are persecuted by "radical activists" for engaging in so-called cultural normalization with Israel. (memri.org)
  • Various groups of radical political activists exploited the current state of the Arabs - the deterioration of the political and social situation in most of the Arab and Islamic countries, the nonexistent or weak status of the major national movements, and the paralysis and weakening of the role of the elite - to place themselves in charge of defining the meaning of normalization and the rules for banning it. (memri.org)
  • The Arab media's recent exposure of this phenomenon has triggered a wave of outrage among Syrians and other Arabs, and activists have launched a campaign against it, including on Facebook. (memri.org)
  • Cooke makes Arab culture more accessible to Western readers by providing first-hand accounts that explain non-Western perspectives. (duke.edu)
  • By focusing on a direct translation of Arabs' perspectives, Cooke stays true to the zeitgeist of the Arab Gulf that still connects to Western readers. (duke.edu)
  • The flier shows us how the disease of racism seeps into Israeli culture. (ynetnews.com)
  • [1] The match sparked controversy and was almost canceled because the Emirati team includes an Arab Israeli player, Mu'nas Dabbur, who formerly played on Israel's national football team. (memri.org)
  • Israeli Arabs. (memri.org)
  • On August 4, after the controversy over the game broke out but before Al-Wehdat announced that it would be playing, Jawad Boulos, an Israeli Arab attorney and journalist, addressed the affair in the London-based Qatari daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi. (memri.org)
  • Power vacuums resulting from the Arab uprisings of 2011 shook the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to its core and provided Islamist parties, including the Ikhwan, an opening into electoral politics. (mepc.org)
  • Contrary to what Douthat suggests, Arab nationalist uprisings are by no means a principal threat to Middle Eastern Christians, and the Egyptian spring is far from responsible for the worsening of the Copts' plight. (firstthings.com)
  • This article tackles the complex struggles faced by Arab women, including multiple layers of invisibility, marginalization and inequality , [1] all of which have significantly worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. (arabmediasociety.com)
  • In other words, while Arab men engaged in one struggle to end political injustice, Arab women engaged in two parallel struggles to end both political and social injustice. (arabmediasociety.com)
  • In this article, we will provide an introduction to Arab Christian culture and names, explore the importance of names in Arab Christian communities, discuss popular Arab Christian names and their meanings, examine the influence of biblical figures on Arab Christian names, and celebrate the beautiful blend of culture and faith in Arab Christian naming traditions. (thewitness.org)
  • Whether you are a Christian who wants to learn more about Christianity around the world or simply curious about the diversity of Christian naming traditions, we invite you to continue reading and explore the rich world of Arab Christian names. (thewitness.org)
  • Arab Christian culture is a rich and vibrant tapestry of traditions, beliefs, and practices that have evolved over centuries. (thewitness.org)
  • [9] Arab women also suffer from stagnant social traditions, stemming from a deeply-rooted patriarchal culture. (arabmediasociety.com)
  • It's a disturbing and harsh disease, an infectious disease, which should be isolated, along with its carriers, in a joint Jewish-Arab effort at all levels: judicial, educational, and political," he declared. (ynetnews.com)
  • Due to such and many other factors, Anglophone Arab fiction came to the limelight with many emergent voices, expressing the anguish and the harsh experiences of Arabs and Muslims in an attempt to talk to and negotiate with the American culture. (grin.com)
  • Culturally blended, this fiction would provide the Western readers with fresh and authentic portrayal of the Arab world, away from what has been transmitted to them through Orientalists' works as well as manipulated media channels. (grin.com)
  • It falls on our shoulders as institutions and individuals to follow in the footsteps of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed AlQasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, and present the noble and authentic values of our Arab identity and civilisation to the world. (merimedia.net)
  • He added: "Mexico and other Latin American countries share many authentic values with Arabs, which makes it easier on us to build strong bridges that serve both cultures and their societies. (merimedia.net)
  • Over the course of nine days, Sharjah turned the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) into a global celebration of Emirati and Arab culture. (merimedia.net)
  • While participating as the Guest of Honour at the 36th edition of the fair, the UAE flag was displayed along the exhibition pavilions and walls with the names and pictures of Emirati and Arab authors, creators, and artists on billboards around FIL 2022 . (merimedia.net)
  • As part of Sharjah's cultural offerings they promoted the Emirati and Arab film industry through the screening of the film ' Khorfakkan ', in two of the biggest cinemas in Guadalajara. (merimedia.net)
  • Commenting on the conclusion of the emirate's participation at FIL 2022, Sheikh Fahim Al Qasimi - Chairman of the Department of Government Relations (DGR) in Sharjah, and head of the Sharjah delegation - called on Emirati and Arab cultural institutions to follow the path of the emirate in building bridges with cities around the world. (merimedia.net)
  • As youth pastors seeking to teach about Christianity around the world, it's vital we recognize these nuances in naming conventions among our fellow believers throughout different cultures globally! (thewitness.org)
  • Not only that, the Arab regimes failed to recognize the changes that had occurred regionally and globally. (pij.org)
  • According to Cooke, new spaces are a platform to share an "old" history that has been rewritten to remove the hardships faced by Arabs of the past and celebrate the rest of the culture. (duke.edu)
  • Sheikh Fahim explained that nations and civilisations value and celebrate their counterparts especially after learning about the various aspects of their history and culture. (merimedia.net)
  • Discontent with Arab regimes has always been present and widespread within liberal and Islamic circles, albeit for different and divergent reasons. (pij.org)
  • No one can deny that the demands of the Arab youth are just and that the behavior of the Arab regimes was domineering and despotic. (pij.org)
  • The relative wealth of the Arab world, the calls for women's empowerment and the increased importance of information technology among the youth have also introduced new realities that required substantive intervention on the part of these regimes, which they also failed to address. (pij.org)
  • In response to the regimes' failure to respond to the changes in the Arab street in recent years, the Arab masses in general, and the youth in particular, peacefully demonstrated and were successful in bringing about change in most of the Arab countries, including the those that did not witness a regime change. (pij.org)
  • Since the cold war, there have been roughly two camps in the region: the "pro-Western" regimes that are usually governed by Sharia law, in which Christians are persecuted alongside Arab nationalists, and the secular nationalist regimes, where Christians have been better off, by far. (firstthings.com)
  • The Arab student union at the Ramat Gan College also addressed the fliers, by publishing one of their own, signed by Jewish and Arab students. (ynetnews.com)
  • The love that Moroccans of the Jewish faith have for their country of origin all over the world shows that Judaism has never been alien to Morocco, on the contrary, it has for over more than two millennia been an integral part of the culture of the country and still is today, and in spite of the fact that Moroccan Jews have gone to Israel and elsewhere. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Its modernist application of conservative Islamist principles ignores the Gulf Arab cultural and social framework, pitting the movement against the state. (mepc.org)
  • Mubarak was one of the many pro-Western Arab dictators who openly played with Islamist fire. (firstthings.com)
  • Welcome to our blog, where we explore the fascinating world of Arab Christian names. (thewitness.org)
  • While it is true that some reforms had taken place in the Arab World 1 , they were substantively cosmetic and superficial and did not address the authority of the Arab leaders. (pij.org)
  • While some people may question how "real people can live in such unreal places," Cooke argues that the tribal identities of the Arab World are crucial components of the modern identity. (duke.edu)
  • As a result, this tribal affiliation plays an important role in both claiming rights and shaping national identity in the Arab World, as well as excluding foreigners from Arab spaces and preventing non-Arab groups to gain power in the region. (duke.edu)
  • While they are often depicted as voiceless members of society, Cooke's inclusion of women's writing not only disproves this stereotype but also introduces a literary motif unique to the Arab World. (duke.edu)
  • For example, amid the expanding economic downturn fueled by the pandemic, fragile states in the Arab world appear to be plagued with an additional socioeconomic virus. (arabmediasociety.com)
  • This 'info-deficiency' also intersects with an underlying systemic divide between the women of the Arab world in terms of access, context, training, and ownership to the systems of information in which they are participants, leading to further inequalities. (arabmediasociety.com)
  • Women across the Arab world suffer from a series of intersecting invisibilities, with many elements of their economic, social, and political contributions to the societies in which they live remaining uncounted, undocumented, or disregarded. (arabmediasociety.com)
  • [8] Similarly, disparities between access to information and education by gender mean that women in the Arab world are often ill positioned to participate in society more broadly. (arabmediasociety.com)
  • From creation of the oldest guitar in the world and the invention of the lute, to adding a fifth string to the rhythms and the various Iraqi maqams, Iraqi music proves to be an important part of the country's culture. (al-bab.com)
  • It should be mentioned that the phenomenon of marrying refugee women is known from previous wars, such as the 2003 war in Iraq, and that Syrian women have long been considered desirable brides in the Arab world. (memri.org)
  • Interestingly, it is the hybrid nature of the Anglophone Arab literature that makes it a promising literary and cultural field of research, not only for its minority status, but also because it would serve as a primal bridge of communication between the Americans and the Arab world in a time during which ongoing conflict and tension is frequently growing between the two sides. (grin.com)
  • A number of civilisations flourished in these lands, including the Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths and the Arabs. (malaga.es)
  • Music has been an integral part of Egyptian culture since ancient times. (al-bab.com)
  • Apart from their common economic interests, the alliance between Uncle Sam and the most backward, totalitarian regime this side of the Taliban can be explained by the presence of a perceived common enemy: secular Arab nationalism, of which the Egyptian uprising is simply the latest example. (firstthings.com)
  • The term Norman-Arab-Byzantine culture, Norman-Sicilian culture or, less inclusively, Norman-Arab culture, (sometimes referred to as the "Arab-Norman civilization") refers to the interaction of the Norman, Byzantine Greek, Latin, and Arab cultures following the Norman conquest of the former Emirate of Sicily and North Africa from 1061 to around 1250. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cooke concludes that this new cultural approach has allowed the Arab Gulf states to become economic forces by exporting their culture, not just their oil, and investing in others' states as well. (duke.edu)
  • One aspect of this culture that stands out is the naming convention used by Arab Christians. (thewitness.org)
  • Arab Christians often use names with deep religious significance, drawing from both Arabic and biblical sources. (thewitness.org)
  • This dual naming system reflects how deeply intertwined religion is with everyday life for many Arab Christians. (thewitness.org)
  • It's crucial for Christians worldwide to understand that this naming convention reflects how deeply ingrained religion is within Arab culture. (thewitness.org)
  • The shared element that has bound the people together in their national sentiment has been their shared culture, history, and language, rather than religion, and it was more often than not Arab Christians who theorized and lead it. (firstthings.com)
  • In every Arab country where there is a major, historical Christian presence, these Christians have played a major and often decisive role in the building of a national consciousness. (firstthings.com)
  • The name 'Zaitoun' in Arabic means olives, which demonstrates the Palestinians strong attachment to their land, particularly to the olive trees with all of the symbolism of resistence, history and culture it carries. (mediamonitors.net)
  • Geoffrey Nash explained that there is a qualitative difference between Arabic literature, Arabic literature translated into English, and a literature conceived and executed in English by writers of Arab background (11). (grin.com)
  • Indeed, the Arab Anglophone novel is different from the one written in Arabic and translated into English. (grin.com)
  • Since colonial time, there have been many Arabic novels which were translated into English and contributed to introduce Arabic culture to Western readers. (grin.com)
  • As a result, Sicily under the Normans became a crossroad for the interaction between the Norman and Latin Catholic, Byzantine-Orthodox, and Arab-Islamic cultures. (wikipedia.org)
  • Few countries can boast of a national identity that is one and indivisible, a unity forged by the convergence of Arab-Islamic, and Amazigh components and which has been nourished and enriched by its African, Andalusian, Hebrew, and Mediterranean tributaries. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Tribal Modern uses an analysis of the history, institutions, and cultural phenomena in the Arab Gulf to highlight the "undiluted convergence" of barzakh . (duke.edu)
  • In addition to their religious significance, Arab Christian names also tend to reflect cultural values such as family ties and community bonds. (thewitness.org)
  • In Arab Christian communities, names are not just a form of identification, but they hold significant cultural and religious meaning. (thewitness.org)
  • The internal relationships of Arab families reflect this cultural reality. (elca.org)
  • Almost fifty years later, Dubai seems like a revamped city, yet it still offers some of the defining cultural elements of its past. (duke.edu)
  • Cooke interviews students and workers (16, 32), but she also analyzes the cultural products of the Arab Gulf for the reader. (duke.edu)
  • This example provides proof of Cooke's eye for unique cultural traits of the Arab Gulf. (duke.edu)
  • She insisted on giving several performances in Ramallah and Jerusalem, but was eventually forced to cancel her show in Haifa, succumbing to pressure from elements that call for a cultural boycott of Israel. (memri.org)
  • These 'anti-normalization committees' specialize in preventing cultural normalization, but their leaders do not persecute the normalizers in other domains, which are actually the more important domains that have much more influence on the fate of Palestine and on the interests of the Arab peoples. (memri.org)
  • Hybrid and cosmopolitan in their approach, such writers also attempt to be cultural mediators, and they show much concern about subverting the normative judgment and stereotypical image that has fixed the Arab American. (grin.com)
  • Works of fiction produced by Anglophone Arab writers, such as Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land , Rabih Alameddine's The Hakawati , and Alia Yunis' The Night Counter represented how Arab Americans faced difficulties after 9/11 in terms of identity construction, cultural identification, and the conflicting sense of belonging and non-belonging. (grin.com)
  • They also interlink both the Arab culture and American culture, celebrating both cultural identities. (grin.com)
  • While it has been a welcome development, Kurdish Studies' slow but steady journey towards institutionalization and the increased contact with neighboring fields has also brought to fore several issues and opportunities for a self-reflective discussion within these fields, which have traditionally been averse to the study of minority groups, Turkish Studies, Iranian Studies, and Arab Studies, more specifically. (jadaliyya.com)
  • These three events bring home the frustrations and perils of practicing Kurdish Studies within milieus stymied by explicit and implicit articulations of colonial Turkish, Arab, and Persian stances and paradigms. (jadaliyya.com)
  • Omani music does not fall within the realm of classic Arabian music due to its many strong influences from African and Indian cultures. (al-bab.com)
  • One sees the obvious influences of South Asian culture, elements of Malaysian and Indonesian culture, East Africa and Arab culture as well. (maldivestraveller.mv)
  • Even with rapid development and modernisation which has brought in new influences, strong elements of these links remain vividly engraved in the local culture. (maldivestraveller.mv)
  • For many of us represented by the groups of color in the Church, our personal cultures insist that one's identity is, at least in part, other-oriented. (elca.org)
  • I have heard non-Arabs denigrate this custom: "Why should I give up my identity just because I became a parent? (elca.org)
  • Cooke also magnifies Arab culture by examining symbols of national identity and challenging traditional understandings of authenticity. (duke.edu)
  • What I found is that some writers often try to negotiate with the American culture in order to arrive at an identity that incorporates multiple elements from both the culture of origin and the host culture. (grin.com)
  • It provides insight into how Arabs view faith as something that permeates all aspects of life - including choosing one's child's name! (thewitness.org)
  • The Western political discourse, especially during the Bush administration, further strengthened this view as it widened the dissatisfaction of the Arab masses with policies toward Israel and its narrow views toward Islam and the "war on terror. (pij.org)
  • Like the erasure of the heterogeneous history of the Arab Gulf, pearl-diving has been rewritten to match a more sterile, modern view. (duke.edu)
  • Some Gulf Arab monarchies view the movement as a threat to their very survival and regional security. (mepc.org)
  • The lora Castle is well worth a visit, together with the wealth of natural elements in the area, in particular the Desfiladero de los Gaitanes. (malaga.es)
  • It reflects several aspects that characterize Arab American writing as a diasporic narrative, such as memory and home, racialization, anti-Arab sentiment and urgency of expression, and how Arab Americans responded to the terrorist attack of 9/11. (grin.com)
  • This brings us back to the double threat posed by radical Islam and foreign domination to Christian Arab survival. (firstthings.com)
  • In Pardes Katz, there are hostile Arabs, not of our people, who have brought to our streets intermarriage, destruction and fear," read the flier. (ynetnews.com)
  • Introducing this element of history demonstrates that what the Arab Gulf advertises as "authenticity" has much more complex roots. (duke.edu)
  • Through this approach, Cooke's book Tribal Modern successfully provides a comprehensive examination of Arab Gulf Civilization that explains, and provides examples of, the paradox of barzakh . (duke.edu)
  • The MB lacks sensitivity to specific interpretations of Islam and Arabian tribal culture. (mepc.org)
  • This literary burgeoning, as seen by Lisa Majaj, reflects in part the shifting historical, social, and political contexts that have pushed Anglophone Arab writers to the foreground, creating both new spaces for their voices and new urgencies of expression, as well as the flourishing creativity of these writers (62). (grin.com)
  • Knesset Member Dov Khenin (Hadash), who serves as chairman of the Knesset's human rights lobby, received a copy of the flier from Arab students studying at Ramat Gan College and said he wished to appeal to the attorney general to open a criminal investigation against its authors. (ynetnews.com)
  • The MB's pledge of allegiance ( baya ) is critically important regarding the Gulf Arab narrative that the movement's transnational connections undermine the GCC's collective security. (mepc.org)
  • Adopted in 2011, in the context of the Arab Spring, Morocco's new Constitution recognizes the Hebrew component as part of the culture of the kingdom. (timesofisrael.com)
  • In the case of those of Arab and Middle Eastern heritage, there is a sense that we are nothing without a family and community to help define us. (elca.org)
  • The fliers also claimed that the "hostile elements bring defilement and assimilation into the neighborhood" and said that they wish to remove all Arabs from the premises. (ynetnews.com)
  • Arab youth have found a bonanza of information that had a significant influence on their attitudes toward politics and social issues. (pij.org)
  • [5] Indeed, the IMF has predicted an overall 7 percent drop in real GDP in Arab economies, as well as a 14 percent fall in remittances throughout the region, with myriad political, economic, and social effects, including exacerbating gender disparities. (arabmediasociety.com)
  • Therefore, when the Arab Spring erupted in 2011, Arab women were engaged in a dual struggle to liberate their countries from autocracy, while also liberating themselves from marginalization, through an attempt to secure equity in the political, social, economic, and legal spheres. (arabmediasociety.com)
  • Influenced by distinct political, social and theological landscapes, as well as differing foreign-policy agendas, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have always assessed the MB differently. (mepc.org)
  • Gulf Arab leaders felt the winds of more political and social change blowing into the GCC. (mepc.org)
  • This practice reinforces the importance of family relationships within Arab Christian communities. (thewitness.org)
  • However, another parallel-yet contradictory-threat, which could be referred to as an 'info-deficiency,' manifests itself as the shortage of important, basic information, also accompanied the spread of this pandemic, with especially dire consequences for the most vulnerable and marginalized groups, including Arab women. (arabmediasociety.com)
  • The study shows how Arab Americans dealt with the consequences of 9/11. (grin.com)
  • The naming process in Arab Christian families is taken with great care and consideration. (thewitness.org)
  • These works genuinely depict the life of Arab Americans and give a better understanding of who Arabs are. (grin.com)
  • In the past several years, the Arab masses were exposed to a mushrooming network of satellite stations that entered every house and influenced all generations and ages. (pij.org)
  • And that is a lesson those of Arab-American heritage can share with the Church: we cannot be fully who we are meant to be if we remain isolated individuals. (elca.org)
  • Dr. LaHurd, an Arab-American of Lebanese ancestry, has served as a teacher, administrator, author, and leader in many capacities, including with the ELCA Association of Lutherans of Arab and Middle Eastern Heritage. (elca.org)
  • Popular Arab Christian names and their meanings. (thewitness.org)
  • now soap operas and other popular culture components like soap operas romanticize it (107). (duke.edu)
  • The Maldivian culture when seen through its music and dance and its art and craft reveal the journey it has taken through time. (maldivestraveller.mv)
  • One advantage of belonging to a large group with internal diversity like the ELCA is that we can see varied cultures within a group whose defining culture we share. (elca.org)
  • Overall, Arab women suffer from three layers of invisibility, which obscure their complex identities and lived realities, namely: media misrepresentations, marginalization in academic literature, and marginalization in the socioeconomic sphere. (arabmediasociety.com)
  • The instruments that were used were traditional Arab and Western instruments, such as the Oud, guitar and the drums. (mediamonitors.net)
  • The island of Sicily was split politically between three Arab emirs, and the sizable Byzantine Orthodox Christian population rebelled against the ruling Muslims. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1091, Noto in the southern tip of Sicily and the island of Malta, the last Arab strongholds, fell to the Christian forces as well. (wikipedia.org)
  • But in the Arab Christian culture, names carry an even deeper significance. (thewitness.org)
  • An Introduction to Arab Christian Culture and Names. (thewitness.org)
  • The significance of names in Arab Christian communities is significant. (thewitness.org)
  • Arab Christian names hold a special significance for those who are part of the faith. (thewitness.org)